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MUSINGS :: The Gaze

January 21, 2019

MUSINGS :: The Gaze

There's a passage in a book by Donna Tartt titled The Secret Society where a professor character references one of Aristotle's writings: Poetics. In it, Aristotle says that certain objects/subjects are painful (or unsettling) to view in themselves, but can become delightful to contemplate in a work of art. I think this explains how an actual photo of an actual woman without clothes needs to be censored with pixelation or a graphic line to cover nipples and other body parts, lest the photo become banished from social media ... but once that subject/body parts are referenced for a painting or a sketch, no...

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MUSINGS :: Life Itself

December 31, 2018 • musings

I could tell you that the night is young and that we are still out on the town celebrating New Year's Eve as I take a quick bathroom break to post this photo. Or I could tell you that we WERE out earlier but that we've been back home for a while now, all cozy in sweats and watching movies. How could you tell which version of the story is true? After all, narrators have the ability to exaggerate, understate, obfuscate. Narrators are so very unreliable. That's one of the points of the movie that I just watched titled Life Itself. That narrators are unreliable....

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MUSINGS :: My Word for 2019 :: BODY

December 31, 2018 • musings

  When I'm making art, I'm thinking about my body. When I'm cooking I'm thinking about my body. When I see a newborn baby I'm thinking about my body. When I am with the elderly I'm thinking about my body. When I'm walking, talking, traveling, singing, eating, reading, playing the viola, watching a movie ... doing anything at all, the thing that is and has always been on my mind is my body. Will my body allow me to do all that I need to do, all that I want to do? Will I have loved and respected and enjoyed my...

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PAINTINGS :: 665 On Time

December 31, 2018 • paintings

PAINTINGS :: 665 On Time

665 On Time 6x6 inchesOriginal oil painting on gessobordBuy this work here   ---I love wearing my wrist watch. I don't feel completely dressed until it is on my wrist. I don't set it ahead to give me a false sense of "extra" time. I set it for the exact, truthful time. And with that truth, I try to commit myself to what I know I can handle well and decline that which I know I cannot handle well. Incredibly, by being punctual, other things elegantly fall into place ... like finances, work projects, fitness, etc. When my time isn't...

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MUSINGS :: The Gaze
January 21, 2019

MUSINGS :: Life Itself
December 31, 2018

MUSINGS :: My Word for 2019 :: BODY
December 31, 2018

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